my favourite song from this telephone explosion release (Delicious Logo by Man Made Hill), which unfortunately for my ears, mostly sounds nothing like this.

the album is interesting, though. i felt compelled to defend it when sharing it with someone, who found it annoying and unpleasant. it's not not those things, but isn't it also lovingly made? eliding distortion, or screaming, or atonality - which are the more typical ways of making music grate - the music is written with a deliberate & boorish unseriousness. but it also cares. it's attentive to the sonic details of the eighties pop music that it draws from.

it's not tim & eric, nor some kung fury-type parody. it's something that makes you feel really weird if you fall asleep listening to it, overtired and alone at two in the morning. don't ask me how i know.